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Activity by local investors remains high in some markets.Property investment in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) totaled approximately €458 million in July/August 2009, through 17 mostly off-market transactions, according to the September edition of CB Richard Ellis’ CEE Property Investment MarketView. This brings the year-to-date investment turnover for the CEE region to €936 million. The turnove...

CBRE Highest Ranked Commercial Real Estate Company.Newsweek, a leading U.S. weekly newsmagazine, has ranked CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) No. 45 in its 2009 Green Rankings. The list, featured in the publication’s 28 September 2009 issue, measures the environmental performance of the 500 largest U.S.-based publicly traded companies. The ranking is based on each company\'s actual resource use and emission...

Despite the decline in total retail investment transactions in the first half of 2009, retail transactions accounted for 35% of total European real estate investment activity, compared to the last five-year average of 26%, according to the new research from CB Richard Ellis. The sector’s share of the H1 European market is the highest proportion on record.Eight of the top 10 European investment tra...

CB Richard Ellis completed the search for manufacturing premises in the Moscow Region.In this deal CB Richard Ellis represented John Deere (Deere & Company), the world famous producer of agricultural machinery, that occupied 45,000 sq m of 75,000 sq m of the initial phase at Giffels South Gates Industrial Park (the total area of the park once completed will be 530,000 sq m).

One of the most significant changes in the structure of the European commercial real estate market over the last two years has been the withdrawal of US buyers from the market since the credit crunch took hold, according to new research from CB Richard Ellis.Two years ago, at the peak of the market, US investors were the largest single player in the European commercial property market, making over...

Scot Holland | CB Richard Ellis has announced the completion of a deal and signing of a Lease Agreement for a new office for the “Al Hilal Bank” in Astana, Kazakhstan.The “Al Hilal Bank” (UAE) has announced its plans for the opening of 2 branch offices in Kazakhstan before the end of 2009. These branches will be the first Islamic bank offices operating on the territory of the ex-Soviet Union. Thei...

Dear Clients and Partners,We would like to inform you about the new address of our office in Astana: Astana city, 6 Sary-Arka ave, office 305. BC “Arman” Phone: +7 (7172) 990-440, 990-449, 259-29-83

Average deal size tumbles as large lot size deals dry up in European commercial property market.The average transaction size completed in the European commercial real estate market in the first half of 2009 has fallen by more than half since the peak of the market in 2007, reflecting the extent to which the credit crunch has affected the ability of investors to complete large deals in today’s mark...

ARENDATOR.RU, one of the top information resources on commercial real estate in Russia have asked leaders of the industry about the second wave of crisis in Russia. Will the bank loan arrears, that have already reached 15-20% mark today, be the reason for economy slow down and become a result of real estate market collapse? What shall we expect during the next six months?Darrell Stanaford, Managin...